Library Shelf Archive

2011-12

OCTOBER 3
The librarian for Eurasian Studies, Liladhar Pendse, has acquired nearly 40 richly illustrated children books from Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, and the Ukraine for Cotsen Children's Library collections on campus. The acquisition reinvigorates the Cotsen Children's Library’s Central Asian Collection of young adult and children's literature from Central Asia. Pendse is currently working on a consortial agreement between Columbia University Library and the New York Public Library on coordinating collection development activities for Slavic materials.

OCTOBER 17Florovsky Project Update: The library is currently engaged in organizing the Georges Florovsky Papers, 1916–1979 (bulk 1950s–1960s). The student worker has completed sorting and organizing boxes 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 20, as well as the letters from Florovsky to others, which range from 1920–46 and from 1952–54.

New Acquisition: We have acquired a five-volume reprint of Sovremennaia Arkhitektura, an important journal that was originally published from 1926—30 in the Soviet Union. Bibliographic description:

NOVEMBER 15
The library has made some recent acquisitions that relate to history of sciences and space studies, as well as some literary studies-related acquisitions. There are hundreds of books, including many Russian Booker Prize, Bol'shaia Kniga Award, and other award-winning titles. Click here for some examples.

NOVEMBER 22Click here to view the format News from the Library Shelf will use to announce select new acquisitions. The file is abbreviated due to the time required to create it; the librarian closely monitors all of Firestone Library’s recent acquisitions of books in the Russian language and can assist with any inquires.

DECEMBER 5
Firestone Library has acquired several new titles for its rare books and special collections department in collaboration with Liladhar Pendse, the librarian for Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian studies. The items will be held by the rare books and special collections department and are in the process of being cataloged. Click here for selected images.

MARCH 12Literaturnaia Gazeta (1929+ (currently 1968+))
Established on April 22, 1929, with the support of the "father of Soviet literature," writer Maxim Gorky, Literaturnaia Gazeta is a landmark publication in Russia's cultural heritage. With its focus on literary and intellectual life, it allowed Soviet Russia's preeminent authors, poets, and cultural figures a particular podium for commentary, affording perhaps fewer restrictions than might have been possible in other publications. Literaturnaia Gazetawas considered the most open among newspapers of the Soviet era, and remains popular among the intelligentsia in today's Russia.

This full-text electronic resource is available for faculty and students.

MARCH 26
The entire online collection, “Russian Avant-garde, 1904–1946,” produced by Brill, has been purchased and is currently being catalogued by the University’s electronic resources librarians. This important collection contains 778 fully searchable individual titles that were published between 1904 and 1946. Users may browse or search the catalogue at http://www.primarysourcesonline.nl/c30/. For background on the scope of the collection, go to http://www.primarysourcesonline.nl/c30/background.php.

Off-campus access to the collection requires users be authenticated on the University’s VPN.

APRIL 2
An online archive of Voprosy Literatury (vendor’s description: Authoritative journal of literary criticism offering articles and roundtable transcripts dealing with problems of Russian and world literature, history and theory of literature.) has been purchased. It can be accessed at http://dlib.eastview.com/browse/publication/686.

Off-campus access to the collection requires users to be authenticated on the University’s VPN.

APRIL 5
The library has recently acquired a collection 141 Soviet posters, primarily from the 1970s and ’80s, and another collection of Soviet-era ephemera. The posters and ephemera items will be processed over the summer and deposited in the ReCap for optimal storage.

View a description of the types of posters included in this acquisition.View a chronological list of the posters included in this acquisition.